Collar-band.



W. J. DAVIDSON. COLLAR BAND, APPLICATION FILED NOV 2. I914.

Patented Sept. 28, 1915.

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WILLIAM DAVIDSON, OF HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT.

COLLARBAND.

Specification of Letters Patent:

Patented Sept. as. 1915.

Application filed November 2, 1914. Serial No. $169,943.

this application is a collar band stiffener and the invention aims to provide novel means for retaining the stiffener in place, the said means serving to hold the collar stud, and the stiffener acting as an abutment for the stud.

It is within the scope of the invention to improve generally and to enhance the utility of devices of that type to which the present invention appertains.

-With the above and other objects in view which will appear as the description proceeds, the invention resides in the combination and arrangement of parts and in the details of construction hereinafter described and claimed, it being understood that changes in the precise embodiment of the invention herein disclosed can be made within the scope of what claimed without departing from the spirit of the invention.

In the accompanying drawing:-Figure 1 shows in perspective, a garment constructed in. accordance with the present in- Fig. 2 is an elevation looking into the inside of the collar band, toward the rear; Fig. 3 is an elevation looking at the collar band from the rear, forwardly; Fig. 4' is a plan of the stiffener; Fig. 5 is a perspective showing the band partly open to disclose the stiffener; ig. 6 is a cross section taken through the band; Fig. 7 is a fragmental elevation of the front portion of the band, parts being broken away. p

In the accompanying drawings there is shown a portion of a garment, ordinarily a shirt, the same including a body 1. Attached to the body 1 is a band 2, the same including a lining 3. The band 2 includes an outer wall 4 and an inner wall 5. The inner wall 5 is stitched throughout its entire circumference to the body 1 as shown at 6. The outer wall Q is stitched to the body 1 as shown at 7, to spaced points 8, between which points 8 the outer wall, at the rear of the band is notattached to the body, thus forming an opening 9. A flexible tab 10 is caught between the lining 3 and the inner wall 5. In the tab 10 there is an upright studhole 11 adapted to be alined with an upright studhole 12 in the outer wall :ls.

Located between the walls at and 5 of the collar is a stiffener 1+1 preferably made of celluloid. The stiffener 14: tapers as shown at 15 toward its ends l6, the said ends lying adjacent the forward studholes 17 of the band.

It is to be observed that the stiffener let 'is of a common thickness from end to end, there being no overlapped or bulky parts located adjacent the studhole 12.

A stud 18 is inserted through the hole 11 in the tab 10, while the tab is in the depending position shown in Figs. 3 and Then the tab 10 is swung upwardly until it lies between the outer wall a and the inner wall 5 as-shown most clearly in Fig. 6. One end of the stud 18 is then passed outwardly through the hole 12 in the wall 4, the parts appearing as shown in Fig. 6. hen the tab 10 is thus-disposed, the tab serves to prevent the stiffener 14 from moving downwardly adjacent the opening 9, the tab being upheld by the engagement of the stud 18 in the hole 12 of the wall l. The stud is indeout a portion only of its circumference thereby to define an opening at the back of the band; a stiffener lying between the walls and insertible into' the hand through the opening; a tab -secured at one end to the body, the other end of the tab being extended across the lower edge of the stiffener at the opening and being prolonged between the stiffener and the outer wall, the tab and the outer wall'having studholes; and a "stud my own, I have hereto affixed my signature molngedlin the stildh'ole dof 1the 211) and eX- in the presence of two witnesses. ten e tn'ough t1e stu hoe 0 the outer j T wall, the stud being movable with the tab I WILLIAM DAVIDSOL 5 independently of the stiifener'and abutting "\Vitnesses:

at its innerend against the stifiener. ERNEST LAKEMAN,

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as I. N. MOKAY. 

